Famous Art Quotes Part – 57

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.

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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

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To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

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To choose art means to turn one’s back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.’ George Washington

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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movement, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others experience the same feeling–this is the activity of art.

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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Samuel Johnson quotes

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To Kill A King is one of the biggest independent British films for a long, long time. That’s a great feat in itself.

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

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To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. Anonymous quotes

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To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past, perhaps it is more alive today than it ever was.

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To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

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To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart. Anonymous quotes

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To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.

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To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

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To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.

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To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.

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To sit for one’s portrait is like being present at one’s own creation.


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